Dose finding by the continual reassessment method

As clinicians begin to realize the important role of dose-finding in the drug development process, there is an increasing openness to ""novel"" methods proposed in the past two decades. In particular, the Continual Reassessment Method (CRM) and its variations have drawn much atte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cheung, Ying Kuen (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis 2011.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series ; 41.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627931506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dose finding in clinical trials
  • The continual reassessment method
  • One-parameter dose toxicity models
  • Theoretical properties
  • Empirical properties
  • Specifications of a CRM design
  • Initial guesses of toxicity probabilities
  • Least informative normal prior
  • Initial design
  • The time-to-event CRM
  • CRM with multiparameter models
  • When the CRM fails
  • Stochastic approximation.
  • pt. 1. Fundamentals
  • pt. 2. Design Calibration
  • pt. 3. CRM and beyond.